Land use-induced spillover: priority actions for protected and conserved area managers

Reaser, Jamie K.; Tabor, Gary M.; Becker, Daniel J.; Muruthi, Philip; Witt, Arne; Woodley, Stephen; Ruiz‐Aravena, Manuel; Patz, Jonathan A.; Hickey, Valerie; Hudson, Peter J.

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“…Practices for maintaining landscape immunity and reducing wildlife–human contact have considered land use-induced spillover in the protected and conserved area context. 76 Notably, there is potential to identify and deploy ecological countermeasures once the mechanism driving land use-induced spillover are understood. 77…”

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Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health

Plowright

Reaser

Locke³

et al. 2021

The Lancet Planetary Health

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The rapid global spread and human health impacts of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, show humanity's vulnerability to zoonotic disease pandemics. Although anthropogenic land use change is known to be the major driver of zoonotic pathogen spillover from wildlife to human populations, the scientific underpinnings of land use-induced zoonotic spillover have rarely been investigated from the landscape perspective. We call for interdisciplinary collaborations to advance knowledge on land use implications for zoonotic disease emergence with a view toward informing the decisions needed to protect human health. In particular, we urge a mechanistic focus on the zoonotic pathogen infect–shed–spill–spread cascade to enable protection of landscape immunity—the ecological conditions that reduce the risk of pathogen spillover from reservoir hosts—as a conservation and biosecurity priority. Results are urgently needed to formulate an integrated, holistic set of science-based policy and management measures that effectively and cost-efficiently minimise zoonotic disease risk. We consider opportunities to better institute the necessary scientific collaboration, address primary technical challenges, and advance policy and management issues that warrant particular attention to effectively address health security from local to global scales.

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Section: Research Findings Appliedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health

Plowright

Reaser

Locke³

et al. 2021

The Lancet Planetary Health

193

159

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“…Another paper in preparation (Reaser et al, 2020) provides an excellent perspective on the subject of land use induced spillover of microorganisms. They use a broad evolutionary perspective on zoonosis but focus mostly on spillover of pathogens and provide examples, mainly from vector-borne diseases which provide the best evidence for impact on disease emergence.…”

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Situation analysis on the roles and risks of wildlife in the emergence of human infectious diseases

Kock¹,

Caceres‐Escobar²

2022

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This situation analysis presents a thorough, evidence-based examination of the relationship between wildlife and zoonosis, wildlife and emerging human pathogens and associated diseases, their origins, drivers, and risk factors. There is considerable divergence of opinion around the subject both within and outside the biodiversity conservation community and given the ontological challenges and highly different perspectives, contradictory narrative is unsurprising. Context is all-important and to clarify this in the analysis, the evidence of human diseases coming from wildlife is compared to diseases emerging from domestic animals and humans themselves, to provide context and proportions of the relative risk. The report highlights key knowledge, and provides perspective on where research, policy, interventions, and capacity building are needed to reduce risks of zoonoses and emergent animal-origin human diseases globally.

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“…The IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) has taken a leadership role in this regard. Recently, it published a Special Issue of PARKS that conveys technical guidance for conservation policy making as a pandemic prevention measure (IUCN WCPA, 2021; see also Hockings et al., 2020), including by identifying priority actions for addressing LUIS in protected and conserved areas (Reaser et al., 2021a). An IUCN WCPA Technical Note on a One Health approach to pandemic prevention has also been released to deliver succinct guidance to policy makers (Reaser, 2021), most notably those engaged in UN Convention of Biological Diversity negotiations (https://www.cbd.int/sp/, accessed 27 November 2021).…”

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Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms

Reaser

Hunt

Ruiz‐Aravena

et al. 2022

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Anthropogenic land use change is a major driver of zoonotic pathogen spillover from wildlife to humans. According to the land use‐induced spillover model, land use change alters environmental conditions that in turn alter the dynamics between zoonotic pathogens and their wildlife hosts. Thus, in response to the global spread of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus (the agent of COVID‐19 disease), there have been renewed calls for landscape conservation as a disease preventive measure, including by the G7 Ministers responsible for Climate and the Environment. Landscape immunity, as a new construct, points to four paradigm shifts the world must favor to effectively mitigate pandemic risks. We provide a landscape immunity primer for policy makers and make the case for “world views” that place Homo sapiens within ecological systems, regard human health as an ecological service, prioritize investments in prevention, and apply ecological restoration to human health goals. Crisis is a conversation starter for reimagining and recommitting ourselves to what is most vital and generative. We urge world leaders to make the move to a nature‐positive world.

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Land use-induced spillover: priority actions for protected and conserved area managers

Cited by 5 publications

References 73 publications

Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health

Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health

Situation analysis on the roles and risks of wildlife in the emergence of human infectious diseases

Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms

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